Display cabinet



June 16, 1942.

- G. A. CARLSON DISPLAY CABINET Filed Aug. 17, 1939 fiverzfar' PatentedJune 16, 1942 UNITED STATES DISPLAY CABINET Gustav A. Carlson, Chicago,111., assignor to The Boye Needle Company, Chicago, 111., a corporationof Illinois Application August 17, 1939, Serial No. 290,690 2 Claims.(01. 206-72) This invention relates to a display cabinet. It is usefulfor the display of articles of. various types and particularly forarticles supported within boxes or packages.

An object of the invention is to provide a case of open constructionadapted to support boxed merchandise, etc. in display positions Whilepermitting the passage of light through the cabinet with respect to anyportions not filled with merchandise. A further object is to provide acabinet provided with a minimum of supporting ledges or surfaces andwhich collect substantially no dust while at the same time being adaptedto be supported upon a fiat surface such as the glass top of a shopcabinet. Other specific objects and advantages will appear as thespecification proceeds.

The invention is illustrated in a preferred embodiment, by theaccompanying drawing, in Which Figure 1 is a plan view of the cabinetshown partially filled with merchandise boxes; and

Figure 2, a longitudinal section view, the section being taken asindicated at line 2 of Figure 1.

The cabinet has two long sides ID, a back end wall H and a front endwall l2. There is no bottom or top. Any suitable number of longitudinalpartition walls may be used. In the illustration given, there are threepartition walls 13.

The forward ends of the side walls ID are cut away and an inclined frontpiece [4 is secured across the lower portion of such inclined ends.

In order to secure the packaged goods at an inclination within the opencabinet, I provide inclined rails or cleats along the sides of the wallsI0 and partitions l3. The cleats are thin and project only slightly intothe interior of the compartments formed by walls I0 and partitions l3.The cleats, however, are suflicient to engage the edges of the boxescontaining merchandise and thus support the merchandise at aninclination within the cabinet.

In order to space the boxes, I provide cross platform strips I6 whichextend transversely of the cabinet and which are inclined upwardly attheir forward ends.

For the purpose of illustration, rectangular cardboard boxes I!containing zipper strips 18 are shown supported within the compartments.These long boxes have a width substantially equal to the width of thecompartments and their sides are engaged by the narrow ledges or cleats[5. The squared ends of the boxes have their corner portions restingupon the inclined platform I6, as illustrated more clearly in Figure 2,with the result that the boxes assume a position rendering all of themvisible to the purchaser and in a position where they may be readilywithdrawn.

It will be observed that the case is practically open in those portionsnot filled with merchandise. The platforms 16, by reason of theirinclination, shut off very little light and occupy little space on ahorizontal plane, While the cleats l5 extend only slightly beyond thewalls l0 and partitions l3. Thus light passes readily through thoseportions of the cabinet not filled with merchandise and is utilized inthe glass merchandise cabinets or cases in the storeupon which the glasscabinet rests. There is little tendency for dust to collect upon thecabinet because of the slight or thin edges exposed and because of theinclination of the supporting surfaces.

In the operation of the device, the packages or boxes I l are insertedaccording to sizes or other distinctions in the appropriatecompartments, the inclined cleats 15 providing one support and theinclined platform [6 providing the other support, Each cleat also servesthe purpose of preventing one of the boxes supported in the compartmentbehind it from tilting too far rearwardly. When it is desired to examinethe numbers or other information on the bottom of the boxes contained inan intermediate tier or compartment, it is only necessary to lift theboxes in the compartment ahead of it, thus bringing into view the bottomportions of the boxes in question. The side cleats which support theboxes do not interfere with a full view of the top-most boxes supportedin the compartment behind;

The case is extremely light and, by reason of the inclination of itssupporting parts, provides little surface for the collection of dust andpermits the passage of light through unoccupied portions of the case. Itis, thus, especially adapted for resting upon a glass merchandise case.

While in the foregoing description, I have set forth certain details asillustrative of the invention and certain boxes or packages asillustrative of the merchandise adapted to be supported in the cabinet,it will be understood that Wide variation may be made in such detailswithout departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim:

1. In a display cabinet of the character set forth, a case having rearand side walls and being open at its bottom and top sides, said rear andside walls being of substantially the same height, partition wallsspaced from said side walls, aligned pairs of cleats carried by saidpartition walls and side walls for supporting merchandise boxes at aninclination, and platform strips extending between said cleats andproviding supports for the bottom of said boxes, said cleats extendingat a rearward inclination from said platforms, said platform stripsbeing inclined forwardly and upwardly.

2. A display cabinet of the class set forth,

comprising: a flat case open at its top and bottom, partition wallsextending longitudinally of said case, inclined cleats arranged in pairsand

